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lunes, abril 30, 2001
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linkydink i think most of us have seen the gallery of regrettable food, but has anybody taken a close look at the "meat!" section? it's billed as "the best pro-PETA brochure PETA never made." (the scariest part is, we used to own this cookbook.)
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linkydink "The loss of the physical city of Washington would be a benefit not only to government, but to aesthetics, because it is unquestionably the ugliest city of any pretensions that a human civilization has yet raised up to scar and blemish the countenance of the planet. Here is a city without a plan that has reference to modern life, a city filled with every classical incubus of architecture, with a hundred brown boxes of buildings that grow like fungus in the midst of its proudest and most highly marbleized environs, a city without proportion or color or quality, a city from which lurch dingy thoroughfares strewn with staggering edifices that present every sullen, rococo, snarling, sick, noxious, and absurd form of vainglorious house and apartment architecture designed in the long decades of Victorian false front and the subsequent age of atrabilious brick to assuage the cheap passions of the middle class and the Middle West."
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linkydink "U.S. military leaders proposed in 1962 a secret plan to commit terrorist acts against Americans and blame Cuba to create a pretext for invasion and the ouster of Communist leader Fidel Castro, according to a new book about the National Security Agency."
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linkydink "On the evening of Saturday, April 21, a day which saw tens of thousands demonstrate against the FTAA in the streets of Quebec City, the Independent Media Center in Seattle was served with a sealed court order by two FBI agents and an agent of the US Secret Service. The terms of the sealed order prevented IMC volunteers from publicizing its contents; volunteers immediately began discussions with legal counsel to amend the order. This morning, April 27, Magistrate Judge Monica Benton issued an amended order, freeing us to discuss the situation without the threat of being held in contempt."
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linkydink jimmy: Escape Velocity covers STELARC, and I think Orlan, too, so it may be more directly relevent to what you're doing in class. On the other hand, The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium is more recent, though I usually reccomend chronological order... but you don't have to take my word for it!
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linkydink If there was ever any doubt that I am a space cadet, let it now be forgotten; I just realized that a 2500-word paper I handed in a week and a half ago was only supposed to be 1000 words long. Sigh... In other news, I am officially the only person in my Commodity Culture class that knows who Negativland is. So I'm still cool. Woohah.
domingo, abril 29, 2001
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linkydink (via MeFi) "No longer will an affinity for used clothes a refusal to eat fast food a vegetarian lifestyle and a subscription to Adbusters suffice I want to buy myself a gas mask tear this world apart and rebuild from the roots with others of likemind: A FTAA DIARY" ...stories from a hellhole of a protest in Quebec last weekend. Shit.
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linkydink I love how dismissive CNN is of Marceau. "Ironically, once he got started he found it hard to stop and delivered a 45-minute monologue on silence versus talk and art versus action in the face of the world's many problems." "Does art make people better? This is a very important problem. And unfortunately I will say no," he said. Or: 'Ha-ha! That wacky french gnome! Imagine-- actually trying to accomplish something after wasting 78 years as a frikkin' mime. Leave politics to the politicians, Frenchy.' Yeah. I bet they do call him Frenchy behind his back. Frikkin' evil CNN reporters. Am I the only one who'd actually like to read what Marceau had to say?
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linkydink Christian- That or the copious amounts of bong resin here in my flat will strangely channel evil-Irvine into Oz. Ueeewwgh.
sábado, abril 28, 2001
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linkydink  AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! (deep breath) AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! rumplestiltskin anyone?
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linkydink ready for a blast from the past? Well...maybe blast is the wrong word. I ran into Andrew Irvine at a party last night. He goes to Brown but I guess he's taking a ceramic class at RISD so he got word of this party. It took him like ten minutes to figure out who the hell I was. Maybe all that bong resin is clogging his memory. Don't worry Timmy, I think the Pacific ocean is enough to ward off the powers of even Super Irvine
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linkydink  It's been scientifically proven, folks: Jason Haas needs to grow a small pointy goatee, a pencil-thin moustache, and a respectable afro. If he does this, I'll move to Austin.
viernes, abril 27, 2001
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linkydink "Ess, a deeply private bachelor who was an estate lawyer at the New York firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, willed several million dollars' worth of books to the school, which intends to add them to its already enormous collection. A 1944 graduate of Harvard Law School, he had amassed the largest private collection of 16th century English law texts in the world - including the books that the Puritans brought to Boston."
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linkydink "Part of this urban exodus is due to major demographic shifts. The centralized city, say theorists such as Joel Garreau and Joel Kotkin, is a social technology whose day in the sun is over. For any number of reasons, including the changed nature of work and technological innovations, people no longer need to be as close to each other as they did at the start of the industrial era; in Cincinnati's case, this help explains why job growth in the surrounding suburbs over the past decade clocked in at over 15 percent, compared with about 3 percent in the city proper. Traditional urban areas, say the likes of Garreau and Kotkin, will flourish only to the extent that they can offer a radically unique and distinct experience that outweighs all the negatives of city living (such as crime, high costs of living, relatively dilapidated housing, rotten schools, and proximity to urine-soaked improv street theater). Sadly for most cities, there are very few places - New York, say, or San Francisco or Chicago - that can offer such a rich menu of possibilities."
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linkydink jimmy: Three books that you will definitely want to check out -if you haven't been exposed to them already in these classes - are Flame Wars, Escape Velocity, and The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium by Mark Dery. Very, very good stuff and unfortunately I can't find anything else like them these days. P.S. As a matter of fact...
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linkydink From the very cool Lonely Planet guide to Laos by Joe Cummings: "Was it more gratifying to travel through Sumatra before the highway had been paved? Some people would answer, yes, Sumatra was more of a journey, more of a challenge and more of a travel experience in those days. It's 'those days' now in much of Laos. I think the real difference, though, lies not in the masochistic road trips themselves but in the people who travel those roads. A woman who ran a cafe along a newly-sealed highway in Mexico once told me, when I asked about how things had changed since the sealing: 'Bad roads, good people. Good roads, all kinds of people.'"
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linkydink   Stelarc and Orlan's bodies are obsolete. Is yours?Welcome to Performance And Cyberculture. I'm sick of it already. Are you?
jueves, abril 26, 2001
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linkydink "Bettis Rainsford, Thurmond's longtime friend from his hometown of Edgefield, S.C., offers this cautionary note for those keeping a death watch: 'The truth is there have been a lot of South Carolina politicians who were gonna run for Strom's seat when he died, and most of them have already died.'"
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linkydink So I made use of the <comment> tag on my homepage. Apparently it succesfully comments out the unwanted text on my browser (Internet Explorer 5, I'm embarassed to say), but isn't recognized as anything meaningful by some other browsers. Weird, eh? Does HTML have a universally-recognized comment tag? I don't see one in the WebMonkey Cheatsheet I usually rely on.
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linkydink cmoore: I think this quote really gets to the heart of the article: "Because men still far outnumber women on management teams, corporate boards, and in venture capital firms, it is difficult to move up the corporate ladder without their support." Well, duh, it's difficult to move up the corporate ladder without support no matter what your gender is. So, naturally a common-good explanation is insufficient, but a nature/nuture explanation is too easy; could we expect the same behavior if the shoe were on the other foot? We'll have to wait to see.
miércoles, abril 25, 2001
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linkydink WNYC ran a program on lesbian moms. mostly it's "look, lesbians are normal parents". the most intriguing part was the psychologist: "Sociologist Pepper Schwartz, author of Love Between Equals: How Peer Marriage Really Works, found that gay and lesbian couples tended to form more equitable partnerships. She thinks it's because same-sex couples occupy similar worlds. Pepper Schwartz: "For example, you're much more likely to have gay men and gay lesbians where both partners make similar amounts of money. Both partners assume that each job is equally important. There's no cultural socialization that the guy's job is more important, or his ego is more important. There's all that cultural garbage that makes it hard to be egalitarian that gay people don't face, not because they're a higher order of human being, but because by being the same sex, they're more likely to be in the same situation." And sociologists have found that more equality between couples means more harmony….which, in turn, means happy, well-adjusted children."
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linkydink hey hey... remember how i was all pissy about George W. rejecting the proposal to limit carbon dioxide emissions from power plants? well, it looks like my adoptive home state has taken steps to do so on its own. i wonder if this will affect the Mount Tom power plant near Smith? another thing about this proposal: "...The new measures will also allow power plants to write off carbon dioxide emissions by using methods other than simply reducing them at the smokestack." this is good, good, good. one of the recurring themes in my environmental economics class is that adhering to environmental standards doesn't have to be as expensive as it is - policies simply need to reflect the fact that there may not be a best solution for everyone. also, having this sort of most-efficient method of pollution abatement encourages development of new technologies. way to go Gov. Swift.
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linkydink just read an interesting article which describes how women in technology tend to help each other rise, as a sort of female antidote to the Old Boys' Network. i wonder if the reason for this is that women are inherently (or nurtured to be) more cooperative, whereas men are more competitive, or if it's just one of those situations where the oppressed tend to band together for the common good. any insight?
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linkydink This is very peculiar... I do not quite know what it is, or what it means... I think it's Japanese. this is Emily by the way, sorry I forgot to re introduce myself, I've used this name a lot lately, but forget that not everybody connects it with me.
martes, abril 24, 2001
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linkydink "What happens when an English phrase is translated (by computer) back and forth between 5 different languages?"
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linkydink "The argument over low clickthrough raises an old question: What is the clickthrough rate for a billboard? For a radio jingle? How about a TV commercial? Or the one form of advertising that the banner most resembles - an eighth-page ad in a magazine? The decline of banners is a classic example of people not so much refusing to accept bad news as refusing to accept its implications. If the first direct measurement of consumer response to advertising yields results this poor, can't we just as easily conclude advertising itself doesn't work?"
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linkydink "In the spirit of the season, we've saved you the legwork (and the remote control finger) and compiled the list of the 12 coolest DVD Easter eggs - plus, we've hidden an Easter egg of our own, one bonus entry that spotlights yet another extra-packed DVD." There's also dvdeastereggs.com.
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linkydink Can I just say that I'm feeling very cool right now 'coz I got to trade scratches at a hiphop club with some really chill Melbourne DJs, includin James De La Cruz of The Avalanches Monday night? My playing was pisspoor because I'm heinously out of practice, but folks seemed to kind of dig my stuff anyway. As has been noted... I could rule this town.
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linkydink My housing for next sem has been decided! I'm living at 35 Home Avenue-- an apparently beautiful 6-person house right on campus with some other mad funky fresh individuals.
lunes, abril 23, 2001
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linkydink "Displaced dot-com employees and nervous Hollywood technicians have found an unlikely shelter from the economic downturn: the porn industry."
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linkydink the RISD film festival is May 30, and 31. Kangaroo blue? Who are you? anyone in the area should come. I can put up guests for the night as well.
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linkydink "There is such a thing as the burden of proof, and in the case of god, as in the case of the composition of the moon, this has shifted radically. God used to be the best explanation we'd got, and we've now got vastly better ones. God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining." -- Douglas Adams, on Atheism
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linkydink jimmy: That really sucks. You may want to take a look at the FCC's "Slam, Crams, and Other Scams" page and/or ProDial's Consumer Awareness page if for no other reason than being able to make educated threats so you can get things straigtened out. As far as Howard is concerned, it is Standard Operating Procedure for people to stay silent, irrespective of whether they'd have anything to say, so I wouldn't infer anything from it. On the other hand, the vocal opposition isn't making their case very clear, either. Ah, campus controversy.
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linkydink ...EXCEPT, I should add now that I've thought about it a bit: Howie Bernstein himself has never actually publicly raised complaint with the university's dismissal of him, and the university has never offered a public explanation of his dismissal either. Everybody seems really worked up about this except the two parties it concerns most. This seems very strange to me, but apparently doesn't to the protestors. Then again, Wesleyan "radicals" have never been known for thinking much before they choose their causes.
domingo, abril 22, 2001
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linkydink "Verily, the Tao is everywhere. One can learn from just about anything in one's environment if one is observant. Sometimes all it takes is a slightly different way to look at things, and I find it in the most bizarre places. In this case, I found it... at the bottom of a plastic bucket, moving feebly." from taoism.net
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linkydink  Howard Bernstein is a prof at Wesleyan's College Of Letters. I had him for a class called "God, Human Nature, and the Moral Order" my freshman year; he was intense and passionate without taking things too seriously, and he made an impression on me. So I was a little surprised to hear that the school was planning on Letting Him Go without explanation, as were a lot of other students who are even more taken with the man than I am. Unless something radical happens, this will be Howie's last year at Wes.Fortunately, Wesleyan students have never ever been shy of anything radical. A half dozen students have been on hunger strike under a blue tarp in front of Wesleyan's Olin Memorial Library since Thursday morning. More information is at Friendsofhoward.com.
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linkydink though a series of bizarre connections, I was offered the opportunity to appear in an N'sync video this morning. I thought my parents were kidding when they told us about it last night, and I refused to believe a word of it until they showed us the release forms. after much careful deliberation (sleep vs. getting up at 6 in the morning to stand around with a bunch of screaming n'sync fans) I declined this offer. but my sister went with a bunch of her blue haired, mowhawked, punk friends- it will be interesting to see if a single one of them gets their face on TV. In all of the forms we were instructed to dress "n'sync" (whatever that means) and were also informed that "all those inappropriately dressed will be recostumed." this started a brief but interesting discussion with my sister about weather it was at all worthwhile to endure being dressed up and herded around for eight hours for the sake of getting on TV. Kyle seemed surprised by my decision, since I have an interest in acting, and I was told numerous times that it would have been a great opportunity to at least see how something like this is filmed. I did consider it, simply because it's the sort of thing you don't get to see very often, but didn't want to give up the last day of vacation to appear briefly in a video for a band I don't even like. Particularly if there was any chance at all that I'd be required to jump around and scream. Now if it had been a They Might Be Giants video.... Just thought it was worth noting. Christian- when is the film festival at RISD?
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linkydink AAAGGHH! My mother tells me that I just received a letter from a bill collector demanding $112 that I supposedly owe AT&T- this is for a phone service that they wrote me down for TWO YEARS AGO when I was a freshman in college, a service I didn't want and didn't request and was UNABLE TO USE because of the way the Wesleyan phone system works; I've written them letters and spent literally hours on the phone trying to get them to clear these bullshit charges- I thought it was all taken care of years ago, but it's returning to haunt me. It's pay $112, suffer the dread of Poor Credit Rating, or another few hours on the phone waiting on hold whilke I'm ferried between various overworked apathetic AT&T operators in hopes that one of them will pretend to solve my problem again, or at least put it off for another few years. Of all the fucking nerve. Things like this make ugly writhing worms of hate and despair churn my stomach.
viernes, abril 20, 2001
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linkydink Suge Knight To Be Released From Prison 'Dogg is reported to be fearful of Knight's release. "What I'm supposed to do? Go hide?" he was quoted as saying.' I read most of a good book about this guy that read like a Tarantino movie. He is scary; I am amused and fascinated.
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linkydink Y'know, Freddy can marry whoever he wants... but star in a new Karate Kid movie? Some things cannot be forgiven.
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linkydink IBM's graffiti ads run afoul of city officials. So what can I redeem my ten points for, Chris? ;)
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linkydink via Kid Kameleon: Hello my name is paul,and right now im very very angry. About two weeks ago i recievied my copy of "suicide" by kosheen in the mail,and when i say in the mail i seriously mean it. The fucking cunt of a mailman had managed to squeeze my 12" vinyl into the mutha fucking mailbox. -Breakbeat Science board
jueves, abril 19, 2001
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linkydink "It may sound like a fictional short story but Allan Dunne was filmed, featured on TV as a criminal, arrested and questioned when he turned up to a police station to explain, suspended and threatened with the sack, all within two days and all thanks to modern CCTV surveillance technology. His crime? To take £20 out of his own account from a cash machine."
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linkydink if y'all haven't been barraged with enough information about the Free Trade Area of the Americas yet, here's some more: Talks (and Protests) to Begin on Trade Pact for Americas (NYTimes.com) Environmentalists push free trade plus sustainability David Waskow, Friends of the Earth
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linkydink reading about anti-gay groups fighting liberal laws always makes me sad. (well, obviously, since i'm a liberal.) it just frustrates me that what seems so logical to me - all people should have equal rights, full stop - doesn't seem to make any sense to these people. it's like we're from two different worlds.
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linkydink "Now that Nokia has asked Mothersbaugh to compose new ring tones for cell phones, chances are that more people will hear his music in his current incarnation than in his previous one. At the same time Devo has been experiencing a small revival: Target uses its song Beautiful World in a commercial, seemingly oblivious to the dark message of the lyrics (``it's a beautiful world - for you''), and Rage Against the Machine released a cover version that veers in the other direction and is a little too depressing, Mothersbaugh said."
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linkydink "Conservative groups citing Attorney General Tom Reilly's frequent support of gay causes are questioning his commitment to defending the state against a lawsuit brought last week by seven gay and lesbian couples seeking the right to marry in Massachusetts."
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linkydink "The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web Server software usage on Internet connected computers. We collect and collate as many hostnames providing an http service as we can find, and systematically poll each one with an HTTP request for the server name."
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linkydink from ninjatune.net: WAGON CHRIST (aka Luke Vibert) In-Store DJ Set Other Music NYC Monday, May 14 8:00 p.m. Free Admission/ Limited Capacity
miércoles, abril 18, 2001
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linkydink Props, JR&C-Dog. "While Shepard Fairey's public installations of Obey Giant absurdist propaganda pervade the scope of urban environments worldwide, Shepard also produces Obey Giant art for display indoors, in gallery exhibitions and private collections. Many are familiar with the numerous varied limited edition silk-screened and offset posters by Shepard Fairey, available for sale online and in galleries. Recently, however, Shepard has begun producing fine art editions of his poster designs. With each new poster design, he now produces extraordinarily limited edition prints (editions of two), on three surfaces." -shepardfaireyfineart.com Does anyone else see the irony here? Apparently, Fairey himself isn't unaware of it. Interesting that Shepard Fairy's Andre started as an ad with no product, but now it's become a product in and of itself; Fairy makes money off of t-shirts, posters, stickers, art shows, and videos. Not that I blame the guy! There are many Andre The Giant "OBEY!" faces in Melbourne, Australia. Especially in Prahran, where there's a lot of other graffiti. And in one very comfy hip club, "Revolver," they have all kinds of anticorporate pseudologos all over the walls, including several different collages of Andre "OBEY" faces. I think the reading-packet for my Commodity Culture class actually mentions the Andre stickers, but with no mention of Shepard Fairy; SOMEbody didn't do their research. Crikey- in the process of writing this blogpost, I've probably found/written more than enough material to constitute my class-presentation. I have the option of extending it into a 2500 word paper; I think people can (and have) rattle(d) on for far more than that about this...
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linkydink "As China and the United States attempt to peacefully end their diplomatic standoff sparked by the mid-air collision between a U.S. spy plane and a Chinese fighter jet, crackers from both countries continue to wage private wars on the Internet."
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linkydink "It's important to remember this is not some fraternity initiation. It is an initiation far more secret - and far more significant, in terms of real power in the United States - than that of the Cosa Nostra. If the Bushes are "the WASP Corleones" - as the ever more stingingly waspish Maureen Dowd has suggested - this is how their "made men" (and women) are made. It's an initiation ceremony that has bonded diplomats, media moguls, bankers and spies into a lifelong, multi-generational fellowship far more influential than any fraternity. It was - and still remains - the heart of the heart of the American establishment."
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linkydink in my EnviroEcon class, we often discuss whether or not it makes economic sense for developing nations like China to mandate pollution control (since it would come at the expense of economic development). the general consensus has been that it doesnt make sense, since higher GNP gives things like better nutrition and health care. however, maybe we should be doing something about the problem, since now it affects us
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linkydink Shepard Fairey has also done art for mozilla.org... but of course you all knew that 'cause you're already running their browser, right? ;)
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linkydink "In his recently self-published book, O.J. Is Guilty, but Not of Murder, Dear presents a case that O.J.'s troubled son, Jason, 24 at the time of the murders, should have been viewed as a prime suspect."
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linkydink "By following these simple and easy to follow guide you too can form your own nu-metal band, musical proficiency not needed."
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linkydink "But in a broader, more subtle sense, decisions made each day by journalists in New York determine which issues become national news, what gets emphasized, what gets downplayed. In short, what is important for all of us." Obviously, I wouldn't be posting this link if I didn't think the article were worth reading, but in this case I'd just like to emphasize how potentially insightful it is to how The News is really made.
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linkydink "Life is so tiring nowadays. There's so much going on, so much to do, I just can't keep up with it! So I've decided to turn to Google for advice. I'll give it some problems and see what it advises."
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linkydink graeme's diary entry for today had me laughing out loud at work. ah, nothing cheers me up like having a full lab's worth of users (as well as my fellow lab consultant) shooting me funny looks. really, it's been one of those days.
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linkydink "The legal issue goes to a tension at the heart of freedom of expression: To what extent can one author's copyright limit the freedom of another author to write about the first author's work? A deeper implicit issue, beyond the power of any court, is how the old South of slavery, war, and Reconstruction is to be remembered, and by whom. That issue today is being fought out over Southern state flags, the location of statues of Confederate heroes, and, in this case, over one of the most beloved American novels of the century."
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linkydink Check out Shepard Fairy's work Timmy. I think Dave sighted him all ready. He was a RISD grad who went on to poster the world with "Andre the Giant has a posse" posters. He started them as a homework asignment involving advertising. He found this billboard advertising the current providence mayor for his reelection campaign. Over the mayor's face and name he postered his trademark Andre the Giant graphic, so it became an ad for something that didn't have a product linked to it. He got completely obsesive with these so now that I recognize them I see them all over the place. I think he's also got this fan club set up so you too could plaster your town with Andre the Giant.
martes, abril 17, 2001
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linkydink "Asking when did I realise that I'm synaesthetic is like saying, 'When did you realise that you weren't colour-blind?'"
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linkydink Woo-hoo! Some furniture arrived! Seriously, it has been a real pain hacking from the floor, but I have only myself to blame. Next, a real bed (instead of just a mattress) would be nice.
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linkydink jimmy: There's nothing to get, really. The image is of the winner of the recent Boston Marathon, and links to the Boston Globe's marathon page. That's all. Regarding "Graffiti and Anti-Advertising", check out the Culture Jamming directory at Google. My particular favorites are Andre the Giant Has a Posse, RTMark and Adbusters.
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linkydink jimmy: The way I see it, you're not "catering to the masses" - you're doing your own thing and other people just happen to groove to it. Ultimately, of course, every performer is necessarily catering to masses (with at least one notable exception, maybe), but it's not like you're selling your soul. You're doing what you love, and nobody can hold that against you. That said, I don't really remember where I found that link, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't via the usual suspects. Sorry, Brother of Sound ;)
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linkydink The similarity between McVeigh's sentiments of 4/16/01 and my sentiments of 9/29/97 are a little weird.
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linkydink Melbourne activists have been organizing like mad for M1- a May 1st planned bonanza of mass blockades and street parties with the aim of shutting down Melbourne's stock exchange and central business district and turning it "into a giant festival for global justice!" There are boring graffiti tags for it everywhere in the city, spouting revolutionary slogans like "CAPITALISM SUX" and "SMASH CORPORATIONS". I don't really get the point; I understand the frustration that's motivating it, but it all feels far to vague for me to really get into. Still, I have no complaints; if it succeeds in knocking out the Australian economy, my US$ will be worth just that much more!
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linkydink JR: I don't get it. On a related note: I need to do a brief report for my Commodity Culture class on "Graffiti And Anti-Adverstising". Cool, eh? Anybody have any favorite links/examples/opinions related to this? PeaceLoveLinux comes to mind; There's something fascinating about corporate advertising adopting (and perhaps dilluting) a meme-propogation strategy born of consumer rebellion against corporate advertising.
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linkydink "To me, the answer is as the Indians believed: respect for the life you take to sustain yourself, but come to terms with your place in the 'food chain.' Best of luck, Tim."
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linkydink I've had (roughly) the same thoughts as Andrew Davidson many times in my life, and am now of course somewhat comlicit in what he's complaining about. Weird, eh? It points to what I feel is a big duality in my life: I traditionally think of myself as an alienated outsider, and yet my chosen avocation (I daresay "passion"?) is one of superhip catering to the masses. What do you think? Please post or tell me. IMHO, ultimately, I think he needs a little less D.H. Lawrence and a little more Friedrich Nietzsche. Where did you find that link, JR?
lunes, abril 16, 2001
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linkydink cmoore: I quite understood that orientation would not protect a transgendered person, but I would think gender does. Apparently not? Are there some cases you can point me to? chris: I just saw the same stencil here in Cambridge, but for lack of a camera, I can't score a picture. As it turns out, it is a marketing campaign.
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linkydink mediawatch, for the sake of jrandom: in addition to huge billboards on 42nd & 8th, i've begun to see (love) (peace) (linux) stencilled into the sidewalk in odd places around the city. honest marketing campaign or fandom gone too far? 10 points for scoring a picture of this craziness.
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linkydink but jrandom, the point, see, is that transgendered people are not necessarily covered under laws protecting people from gender and sexual orientation bias crimes. because trannies aren't necessarily technically of non-traditional sexual orientation, and even if you argue that they are (ie, that a F-to-M tranny dating a woman is a lesbian - but i won't even go there in this post), you'd have to prove that the crime was committed because of their sexual orientation. and, of course, it wasn't - it was committed because of that person's gender identity. but it becomes tricky to prosecute such cases under existing sexual discrimination laws because trannies don't fit very well into gender categories. unless equal protection is specifically extended to trannies, it is difficult to prosecute such a discrimination case.
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linkydink cmoore: A little fact-checking would have done Mother Jones well. You see, among other things, the Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act referred to in that article not only extends protection based on sexual orientation, but also gender and disability.
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linkydink Let Us Declare War on the DJ and All Who Have Mythical Interesting Artsy Jobs and Can Afford to Live in Hip Lofts and Throw Parties At Which the DJ and All the DJ's Friends Can Feel So Special, This War Declared in the Name of D.H. Lawrence and Andrew Davidson by Andrew Davidson.
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linkydink File this under links NOT to open while seated in a crowded college library in front of a group of visiting administrators...
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linkydink dude! nice article about the engineering program. despite the fact that i live and study here, and the hullaballoo over the start of the program last year, i don't actually know much about it. here's a link i was going to post in response to one of dave's posts (which i would link to if the archives were working... grrrr.): MoJo has an interesting article on the lack of legal protection for transgendered people. it's a pretty scary topic, especially considering the recent, um, *cough* mutual attraction shared by me and a certain tranny-boy. it frightens me that my friends can be screwed over at any time and nobody in any position of power gives a damn. as said tranny-boy and i observed last night, gore's campaign slogan could have been, "hug a tree, drill for oil, and fuck over the trannies."
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linkydink "In an effort to challenge that male dominance, 19 students at Smith College this year set out on a four-year track to earn the first engineering degrees ever offered at any of the nation's women's colleges."
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linkydink "The world of the dot.com has resulted in the best of times for some but the worst of times for many others. Now the wild ride that turned tech heads into overnight millionaires and then into instant paupers is being chronicled in an art exhibition."
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linkydink "PBS is generally hoping to raise more money by offering sponsors interactive banners on its digital television screen. The sponsors would still have to refrain from directly marketing their products, but would receive prolonged exposure for their brands to those who choose to click onto their sites for more company information. WTTW is also hoping to use the technology to collect more money through online pledge drives."
domingo, abril 15, 2001
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linkydink Just gotten a working version of my webpage back up. Check it out. Do you have a homepage that I don't know about? Tell me about it so I can link to it from mine.
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linkydink This was written at 5:30pm on Thursday, but I couldn't post it then: Thanks to a link that JRandom posted sometime back (though the archive is missing,) I succesfully ended an annoying essay for Cybersociety with the word "Whoops." Don't I feel special. ...Since then break has been totally awesome, despite my not being able to find a ride to TrancePlant. :)
sábado, abril 14, 2001
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linkydink Last saturday I became a movie star. I play this guy Colin, pronounced colon, who gets killed by a homicidle bunny rabbit that has three ears and a cock. After killing me the bunny rabbit goes over to my friend Ursala, the film maker, takes her top of and fucks her to death. If all goes well it will be the wierdest movie ever. Needless to say all you New Englanders should come down to the RISD film show in May to see this production. It will be worth it.
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linkydink "Both forms can also be subversive. A good joke often speaks some truth that society generally avoids. Good art crosses the bounds of what's expected to make a point about how the artist, or society, sees the world. Andy Warhol's paintings of ordinary objects such as soup cans, for instance, imply that such items can be elevated to high art. Yes, that's funny, if we're not thinking too hard about what it all means."
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linkydink "At Wellesley, students buzzed when Bush announced that he would restrict federal funding for overseas clinics that counsel women about abortion. Word that the president chose John Ashcroft - a deeply religious and outspoken abortion opponent - as the nation's attorney general sent a ripple across campus, as did Bush's decision to shut down the White House's office of women's affairs. But no one rallied."
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linkydink Reaction: "Yahoo! is a mass-market operation, and mass-market operations do not sell pornography. Full stop. This is not simply a question of morality, but simple business sense - annoy too many customers and you will end up being a non-mass market business."
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linkydink "The day I graduate from college, I will make my smooth transition into international super-stardom. Failing that, I will join a nomadic band of hunter-gatherers. It's good to have a back-up plan." The lovely Tracy Joy Manaster, in the latest issue of Moxie Magazine.
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linkydink "After Complaints, Yahoo to Close Access to Pornographic Sites" Opinion: Censorship of search engines is going to be happening a lot in the near future, (as is the purchasing of priority on them ); more and more people are realizing that you can't prevent the information from being out there, but you can make it really hard to find it. Search Engines will be a keystone target of bland people in their quest to make the internet boring and commercially viable.
jueves, abril 12, 2001
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linkydink "In the interests of creating employment opportunities in the Java programming field, I am passing on these tips from the masters on how to write code that is so difficult to maintain, that the people who come after you will take years to make even the simplest changes. Further, if you follow all these rules religiously, you will even guarantee yourself a lifetime of employment, since no one but you has a hope in hell of maintaining the code. Then again, if you followed all these rules religiously, even you wouldn't be able to maintain the code!"
miércoles, abril 11, 2001
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linkydink Of course, they make more than just the Shit-Flinging Television. ... and... http://bloggity.blog.isgay.com/
martes, abril 10, 2001
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linkydink Is anybody here familiar with the desktop theremin? I saw my mom playing with this today, and now i've got one of my own. Thought you all might find it interesting. There is a lot of neat stuff on the bbc site. Other news for today, The Mekons are playing in new york and I am happy. Talib Kweli is playing at Arch Street and so is Brand Nubian. There will be much music in my life over the next month. I am hungry and nonsensical. I will go eat dinner now.
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linkydink Focus on the Family contacts Will & Grace story editor over this episode, and hilarity ensuses!
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linkydink logo! ah, back in the day. my first rudimentary "programming" experience. moving the little turtle around the screen... i'll have you know that my paper, which (sans intro or conclusion) turned out to be 11 pages, was finished by 6:23am. and i think it was actually not just coherent, but decently written. and yes, jrandom, i had a little help from the powers below.
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linkydink "Shatner flashes that half-grin of his, the one Kirk flashed at dozens of alien hotties throughout the galaxy, at generations of fans. Just how much mileage can you get out of that mack-daddy grin?"
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linkydink ah me. tonight, due to my utterly fabulous procrastination skills, i am up into the wee hours writing my Environmental Economics paper. it's currently 3:20am here, and i'm on page four. of course, i only started writing about an hour and twenty minutes ago, so that's not a bad rate of writing speed, i suppose, especially for the state of mind i'm in (read: state of exhaustion and extreme caffeination. i can feel the calcium leaching from my bones as i write...).
lunes, abril 09, 2001
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linkydink Gay Republican Will Run White House AIDS Office For some reason I really like the URL of this one: "http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/09/politics/09GAY.html".
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linkydink I want to tell you all how awesome the Rowden White Library is. It's on the second floor of the Melbourne Uni Union House, and is awesome. In addition to the usual scholarly readings, they have the biggest science fiction section I've ever seen in a library, and a massive collection of Graphic Novels, from which I've just impulsively checked out Cerberus (at JR's recommendation) and Neal Gaiman and Dave McKean's Mr Punch. On top of all that, they have every episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation on videotape, a fair selection of the original series and Deep Space Nine, and a tasteful lack of Voyager. Who needs friends!
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linkydink I was taking Xenodice's advice and looking for information on Angkor and found this. Note the sidebar: "Even though it's a prescription medication, everybody can order Viagra via the Internet and have it shipped anywhere in the world at prices much cheaper than at the local pharmacy... While Viagra is sold as a medication for men suffering from erectile dysfunction, it's really becoming a lifestyle drug." !!
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linkydink "So how does television make me feel? Glib more than anything. The television industry loves dead bodies, but it can't stand dead air. Silence is a bigger taboo than incest."
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linkydink "Do you like being famous for accomplishing great things? Do you enjoy working with people of like minds? Do you look for flexible hours? Do you desire full health benefits with the world renowned Captain Dentist and Dr.Feelgood? Then you are exactly what we are looking for."
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linkydink time for cmoore's obEnviroPost (and obPostFromWork) of the day: "'We need to build 65 new power plants a year in this country for the next 20 years,' Cheney added. 'My own view is that some of those ought to be nuclear and that's the environmentally sound way to go.'" um, dick? way to push the real costs of power onto future generations. (sorry; i'm tempted to get real ranty about this because of all the reading i've been doing on solid waste management, specifically recycling, recently. a lot of the reasons recycling looks so expensive is because people only account for the very obvious present costs - like building the nuclear plant and wow! we don't have to deal with icky CO2 emissions or ash - and not the costs to future generations - like wow! no one wants to store icky depleted uranium in their back yard. there are so many options for clean power. admittedly, all have their downsides, but by cutting clean-energy research funds, how does the Bush administration expect to ever come up with better alternatives? they don't, of course, which is why they're pushing nuclear.) note: don't forget Earth Week (culminating in Earth Day) is April 15-22. mark thy calendars. "In fact there are no U.S.-produced, union-made, and organic or transition-to-organic clothes or shoes on the market, period... But most consumers are unaware of the fact that cotton is one of the largest (3 percent of all agricultural land in the world), most destructive (25 percent of all toxic pesticides, including many of the most poisonous, are used on cotton), and exploitative (in the cotton fields and in clothing sweatshops) industries in the world. The history of that non-organic T-shirt, pair of jeans, shirt, or underwear that you're wearing inevitably involves environmental destruction, harm to animals and fish, exploitation of workers (often children and women), not to mention pollution of the mind -- relentless corporate advertising that tells you to buy, buy, and buy." i find it rather morbidly amusing that China, with one of the fastest-growing rates of emissions in the world (they're set to eclipse us as the biggest emitter within the next decade), has declared its support for the Kyoto treaty, while the US, currently the worst in the world but with a much slower growth rate (and much better resources for implementing changes and a much higher per-capita GDP) refuses. this is so bass-ackwards i can't even begin to rant about it. grr. here's a conservative response to global warming drafted by William K. Reilly, chairman of the World Wildlife Fund and administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the first Bush administration.
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linkydink emily: FYI, Neil Gaiman wrote another Sandman book after The Wake called The Dream Hunters. Other suggested reading is my current object of collection, Cerebus.
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linkydink Timmy- I'm soooo jealous!! :) But my feelings aside, if you're going to be in the area, you should check out the temples of Angkor in Cambodia Although I doubt you'll want to make the trek to Java to see Borobudur, it is pretty cool...
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linkydink I had posted on this, but it seems to have vanished. It may be a problem with blogger, but most likely it's AOL, which means I've got to find some time and reinstall it. I do not profess to be any expert on drugs, but I have been around them a bit. I'm not going to say what you should or should not do, but since people seem to be offering advice I will give it. Other than obtaining substances from to less than reputable sources, the things that cause the most problems seem to be sustained use, mixing drugs, and not knowing enough about what you are doing. Mixing drugs can have unpredictable results and is generally not a good idea for a first experience. And though somehow I doubt you would fall the first trap, I thought I'd mention it. Have you ever been to erowid? it's one of the most useful sites I've been to, and a lot of my friends use it for research. if you're thinking of trying something, be sure to ask a few friends what their experiences were, though i guess that what this is- sort of. forgive me if this sounds a little mixed up, i woke up at 5:30 this morning, and it is only 6:15. i must now go get dressed get dressed for school. it feels a little strange to be talking about this on the list, but e mail me if you'd like. On a brighter note, I bought "the wake" yesterday, thus completing my collection of sandman books. Yay me! I know they are occasionally a topic of discussion here, and I'm quite proud of myself for finally having the money to buy the last book. (I was very insistent on reading them in order even though everybody told me that each book can easily stand alone.) my friends and I have been exchanging a lot of comics back and fourth lately, has anyone got any suggested reading? Just curious.
domingo, abril 08, 2001
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linkydink JR- I'm not trying to put responsibility on anyone but myself for myself- I'm just curious what other people think. ...though after some consideration, I think I can see where you're coming from. Thanks for the links. A friend of mine tells me Laos is beautiful, and I've been pondering spending a few weeks roaming around Southeast Asia as long as I'm already nearby. Roundtrip flights to Bangkok from Melbourne are less than AUS$800, which is US$400, so I might be a fool not to. If I did, it'd be in June around the time my exams end. I'm excited by this but also somewhat sheepishly reluctant in a lazy kind of way. Anyone have any favorite destinations in that area of the world?
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linkydink I know that the purpose of this blog for public discussion, but in addition it is my personal belief that nobody has any business telling anyone how to run his, her or their life(s) even if they are asked to. That is, a direct order is no substitute for an informed opinon. So, I'm not gonna say whether any of us should or should not take drugs, but there are some links I think might be helpful. Unfortunately, it seems the more reliable information is still only available in dead-tree versions. In other news, my sister has brought to my attention "a national conference on race and new media technologies" called Race in Digital Space at MIT. And now I've brought it to your's. chris: Looks like Tortise will also hit the Somerville Theatre before NYC. Hopefully I can catch them there! cmoore & Unity: Really, if the People won't support PBS, is corporate sponsership so depressing? We're getting what we pay for, no? jimmy: Why/when are you going to Laos?
sábado, abril 07, 2001
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linkydink Hiya, folks! In for my semi-regular blog appearance. First, a few bits of blog business: Timmy - We're definitely in the scratch geek/ record collector demo. I know I had a better time @ Kid Koala's portion, and then wathed the lovely ladies dance (while I was myself dancing) during Amon, true to the graphs. J Random - Thanks for the invisibles. I can't stop playing on filmwise! On the topic of drugs, well, I am still an abstinant, but I can see the value thereof. For the record, I post some quotes on the topics from a few of my heroes: 1) Rob Breszny says: "...I don't like to take drugs anymore, I'd rather accomplish it with my own willpower and technology, my own method of getting in a trance. Still, I'm waging my own personal war on the war against drugs. I think certain supervised ways of taking drugs can be very valuable, breaking down the unconscious patterns that sustain the insanity. I'd like drugs to be availabe under certain circumstances--especially the kind that change the brain and expand the outlook." At another point, which I cannot find for quoting, he related a story about a teacher of his that suggested that using drugs to obtain knowledge of the subconscious was like "storming the kingdom of heaven through violence." 2) Steven Soderbergh writes in "Getting Away with It": "Spent some time today thinking about drugs. I'm somewhat fascinated by them despite my realtive inexperience...Now, I've seen a lot of people abusing drugs, but I've seen a lot more people abuse sex, food, and, for that matter, other people...In my limited experience, the only drug of any real value beyond a fleeting period of escape is LSD." Make of this what you will. I was offered pot the other day at a friend's house, but I realized I was only coming close to accepting for social reasons. Not a good reason.
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linkydink unity: midnite theatre went great, all things considered. we had very few rehearsals, and as of dress rehearsal on thursday night i was afraid we'd be a miserable failure. as it was, a few lines were flubbed, and an exit or two, but we recovered miraculously and all was well in the end. but the key thing is, it was FUN. i enjoyed it immensely. and i'm sure i will again tonight.
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linkydink well, duh. that was the point of the last guideline: be smart. don't be stupid. besides, crack doesn't fall into the "non-sketchy" category for me no matter what the source. really, there are no hard and fast rules; pretty much everything is a play-it-by-ear situation. i have faith in your good judgement. c'mon, someone else jump into this conversation. i hate acting like i know what i'm talking about when i really don't.
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linkydink CMoore: I think those drug guidelines are necessary but perhaps not sufficient. I mean, say I had really reliable crack and was with a bunch of friendly crackheads that I knew and trusted. Should I take some crack? Probably not. Other substances, however, aren't (in my mind) so clear cut. (No pun intended.) Any serious contemplation of this sort of thing gives me hard-core heeby-jeebies, so I think I'm gonna stay away for the forseeable future...
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linkydink JR- You weren't? That's right, you weren't. Shame on my memory. The NYC crew is in for some really amazing shows. I'm jealous on all fronts. I missed Vibert when he came through Melbourne ($50!! Yeep!), so double-enjoy him for me. Cinematic Orchestra is in on 6/29 as well as 6/28, so you can certainly double-enjoy that, even though I may be in Laos at the time. (!)
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linkydink so cmoore, how'd midnite theatre go? i miss it..... re: PBS--i wonder how much longer they could have gone on without it, given NEA budgeting and member contributions....what's the trend on the latter, anyway? but it is highly depressing. re: census--yes, prisons are factored in. (i hereby establish myself as Snooty Census Expert :) seeing as how i was an enumerator [the door-to-door person] for a summer job.) and i think the statistic is that one-third of all black men are in some phase of "correctional" institution life. as for required fields...what we were told was that a certain number and sequence of questions from each section (if you happened to get the long form) were considered to be required and people could skip the rest if they liked. i think it ended up being a total of something like thirteen questions that ended up being required. arguments for completing: census affects budgeting for the next ten years. arguments against: japanese internment (sp?) camps during wwII. yep. well, i can say that i won't be divulging any personal information about my neighbors for the next 71 years....:)
viernes, abril 06, 2001
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linkydink in answer to the question: my general rules of thumb regarding drug-taking are: a) don't take drugs from sketchy sources; and b) don't take drugs unless you're around people you know and trust. of course, i'm not exactly the drug-taking guru. so. my real advice is: be smart. don't be stupid.
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linkydink NYC has some great stuff lined up indeed! 4/17 is The Orb (which regretfully I'll miss due to a business trip to Chicago) 5/5 is Cibo Matto 5/12 is Luke Vibert 5/16 & 17 is Tortoise (yay!) 6/28 is Cinematic Orchestra What else? Oh, I caught Mogwai play in March, and they were amazing. Be sure to pick up their new album Rock Action. JT: if you liked Gilliam on Gilliam, I suggest Lynch on Lynch & Burton on Burton - both are just as fascinating if not more so. =)
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linkydink I wasn't there :( I think I'm in the "unhealthy obsessed fans who either bring gifts or want us to sign everything they own" demographic. Along that line, let it be known that I plan on seeing Luke Vibert at The Knitting Factory on May 12th and Cinematic Orchestra at Central Park Summerstage on June 28th, and would love do so with any other interested parties.
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linkydink The schedule for my Easter Weekend. And the big question is: drugs? Then on Wednesday, I'm doing a nifty "physical theater" workshop with Legs On The Wall, who apparently do plays that are 90-degrees in entirely the wrong direction...
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linkydink Jason Haas doesn't know it, but my recent reading has all been vaguely modeled off of a list he posted a week or so ago, and it's all been quite good! First, I dove into Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics, which had some beautiful and brilliant things to say to any aspiring artist, even one as comics-ignorant as myself. Second, I read through (Terry) Gilliam On Gilliam, a series of interviews with the fabulous director. It was great to find out all the behind-the-scenes dirt on his movies, but even cooler to see how much he and I seem to have in common. What shall I read next?
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linkydink ack! tomorrow night i've got to perform in Midnite Theatre, and i seem to be the only one in my piece who knows all her lines and all her entrance/exit cues. but at least i'm not as nervous as i thought i'd be. we'll see how i do with people i know in the audience...
jueves, abril 05, 2001
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linkydink well, i had written up a little ranty anti-Bush post, courtesy of Mother Jones. but blogger ate it. (boo.) so i'll merely link you to their collection of bush articles and point you to one in particular in which Chretien calls Bush a stupid wussy-pants (ok, i'm paraphrasing a little bit). i also find it a bit depressing that PBS is selling out. it's especially disturbing that Masterpiece Theatre is now called ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre. gak.
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linkydink in Networks on wednesday, we watched a little downloadable video called warriors of the net. it's about IP datagrams and how they relay requests from your computer via routers and etc. to other hosts and then transmit data back to you. it's really funny, an an i'm-a-big-geek kind of way (e.g., the routers are these weird 3-armed robots that talk to themselves as they relay packets). however, it's a huge download (78-148Mb); consider yourself warned.
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linkydink ah! i did the same thing with the first roll i shot - i wandered around NYC and shot a whole bunch of awesome pictures, only to realize that the film hadn't caught on the grommets film-forwarding wheel.
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linkydink That sounds like a beautiful show, Cmoore. I think, upon further investigation, that I simply hadn't loaded the film into my camera properly.
miércoles, abril 04, 2001
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linkydink ah! one more anecdote, then i'm gonna do homework, i swear: on monday night i went to the most wond'rous Iron Horse to see the Three Song Circus, a crazy conglomeration of three very fine and fantastic solo artists: Erin McKeown, Jian Ghomeshi (of Moxy Fruvous fame), and Andy Stochansky (the artist formerly known as Ani Difranco's drummer). in a nutshell, they rocked the house. but. here's what really made my day. or my week, even. back when i used to be a band-following fruhead, i'd chat with (Dave) Tobey, the band's roadie, whenever i went to shows. (understand that all (true) fruheads know and love Tobey, and he often gets cheers when he comes onstage to tune guitars and the like. i was just one of the many Tobey-fans.) skip forward to the present: i haven't seen Fruvous play in over a year - way back when my hair was very short. but as soon as i walked into the Horse, Tobey not only recognized me, but came out from behind the merch counter and gave me a big hug and said, "wow, your hair is so long now!" dood. and people wonder why i love Canadians.
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linkydink Well, IPv6 is interesting. The Linux or BSD TCP/IP code isn't to be found via that URL, though, but in their respective sources. If I were the professor, I would laugh at the idea of setting up a web server for a final project in a computer networking class, but then I also wouldn't have taken the top-down approach. SSL is interesting, but most everything else about PKI has very little to do with networking. QoS is certainly a very important topic. 802.11 could also be interesting, but the real security flaw(s) aren't inherent to the protocol. The EFF DES Cracker has absolutely nothing to with networking whatsoever, alas. RTP could be interesting.
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linkydink on my way to work today, i stopped to observe some installation art going up on our science quad lawn. evidently we've commissioned Patrick Dougherty to make us one of his stick sculptures. watching the process in progress is pretty neat - evidently he'll be here working on it for the next three weeks or so, and he's got student volunteers helping him. i'd like to go help out once my hell-week is over with.
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linkydink so i have to pick a topic for my end-of-semester Networks seminar paper. aaaaaand today in class, Judy announced that a couple people from our class and a couple people from the Operating Systems class may get to set up a Linux lab with LAN and Apache webserver - and it will count as our final project. if i got to do this, it would make my toes curl with glee. keep your fingers crossed for me. and if you think any of the other topics on the list look like they'd be particularly cool, drop me a line.
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linkydink the question is not "When will the world run out of oil?", but "When will the world need more oil than it produces?"
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linkydink "Movie hackers have had many faces: one-dimensional clowns, nefarious villains, mischievous geniuses, anarchic heroes. And as hackers and their motivations in the real world have changed, so have their counterparts in the movies. In more recent films they're more unrealistic, cartoonier, angrier, and able to perform completely impractical or impossible acts."
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linkydink i finally registered for classes today. here's what i'm taking:
the fifth class shall be one of the following (at Hampshire):
and also, perhaps, Top Rope Climbing.
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linkydink jimmy: did you develop it yourself? don't beat yourself up too much - it happens a lot. especially with the damn metal reels they have for us to use at smith. i was ever so glad i bought myself my own tank and plastic reel years ago. anyway, don't be discouraged. folkgurl: any population statistics on Fairfield Counties with regard to ethnicity or income make me cringe. we talk about it in my Urban Economics class from time to time, and i can't help but go into "pretend you're not from there" mode. whoops... late for class. i'll blog more later, maybe. (now that the smith network is working again.
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linkydink curious statistics there Amy. Do they factor prisons into the census count? I might be wrong on this but aren't like half of all young black adults behind bars? I'll have to watch "Boyz in the Hood" again to get the exact fact.
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linkydink Argh! My first roll of photos for my photo class came out completely blank. I still don't know what went wrong. *fume* *fume*
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linkydink A qualification to the census data is that only required fields (assuming one fills it out to begin with!) are your current address and how many people live at that address. Everything else is optional.
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linkydink The results of the 2000 Census are being released slowly but surely. My home town, New Canaan, Connecticut, is 95% white, 2% black, 3% Asian, Hispanic and other. The nation as a whole is 75% white, 12% black, and 13% Asian, Hispanic and other. Does anyone else see something wrong with this picture? My mother doesn't. She does not want to ever have to live in a place where she is in the minority. The scariest part of that is that she doesn't admit that her ability to have that be a real possibility is a privelege of her race and class. Scarier still is the fact that this is the woman who bore and raised me, and my sister, who is now dating a nicewhite Catholic boy. I wonder what might have happened if I had said to my mother at age 16, "Mom, I have something to tell you... I'm black", instead of, "Mom, I'm gay". I might be living on my own in Harlem right now, and my mother would be too scared to ever come and visit me.
martes, abril 03, 2001
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linkydink "It all seemed like a lot of double talk," said Lou LaPolombara, 23, who took the train from Philadelphia and missed work to attend the hearing. "They could go on like this forever." Regardless of what the US Congress legislates, can anybody tell me if there's anything preventing somebody from starting a free Napster-like service outside of the US? I suppose it's naive of me to be surprised that they don't mention obvious things like this in the New York Times...
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linkydink The 212 Nerd Crew are the veterans of the heinous debacle that was Wesleyan U's Spring '00 COMP212 ("Data Structures") class, taught by the very-confusing Danny Krizanc. They are Erin Casteel, Julian Graham, Richy Orris, Marina Teper, and myself; all totally fabulous people who I miss very much. Especially myself. And, yeah, we were all forcefed SML a few years back-- a fact which I am now grateful for.
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linkydink My mobile phone has been in for service since Friday. It was supposed to be fixed tomorrow, but instead I received the following: HI TIM, sigh... In happier news, I now have a refridgerator in my flat!! Milk and vegetables, here I come baby! Now, time for more Prolog, (which I have discovered is very similar to SML, if anyone from The 212 Nerd Crew is reading,).
lunes, abril 02, 2001
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linkydink "More than once I have had some body part smashed trying to get on the train. This occurs every day. The saddest part is that the MTA workers standing on the platform directing the opening and closing of the doors just stand there and watch."
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linkydink "For sci-fi author William Gibson, Japan has been a lifelong inspiration. Here, the writer who coined the phrase 'cyberspace', explains why no other country comes closer to the future... or makes better toothpaste."
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linkydink If any of the New England crew are interested: The Roots are live @ University of Hartford 20-4-01
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linkydink christian: You can change the name that Blogger uses for your posts by clicking on "Team", then your name, then "Edit My Profile". Put whatever you want to appear as in the "First Name" field and a single space in the "Last Name" field. cmoore: This is not what you have to look forward to, as it says in the email: "Folks this is a management problem, not an EMPLOYEE problem." jimmy: I will definitely be in NYC for the show. Thanks for the heads-up. BTW, I'm responsible for the quote in the sidebar. I've been reading Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, and came across what I thought would be a beautiful quote to describe this blog... and then there is the whole, via HyperDiscordia.
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linkydink Time is broken. Blogger claims that this post is being written at 7:52am, a few hours before JRandom's 9:39am post. So if JR won't make his post for another 3 hours, how come I can read it now?! Perhaps it's because I'm 14 hours ahead of you all. Can't see JR's post? Perhaps it hasn't been written yet! Go figure.
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linkydink i've been playing hooky from the blog. so here's my blog. cmoore, re: affirmative action-- there is a wonderful author i've just found. she writes for the nation. her name is katha pollitt, and her column is called "subject to debate," as is her new book, a collection of essays from the magazine. she says that either we can have affirmative action or we can actually make opportunity equal for all. and basically since that would entail eradicating poverty, affirmative action is a lot closer to reality. affirmative action's opponents are, for the most part, not prepared to do what it would take to make opportunity equal. she says it a lot better in her book. read.
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linkydink the dodo online. it's the underground paper at the air force academy (where my sweetie goes, much to our collective chagrin). go through the current issue for the article "The Family (dis)Unit(y)." if it's by the guy i think it's actually by, it's a great work by an incredibly weird, weird, funny, weird person.
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linkydink o jimmy, it is not my quote to explain. cast thy questions upon the other blog_admin, jrandom.
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linkydink Cmoore- could you explain the meaning of the quote on the lefthand sidebar? It's intruiging.
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linkydink Cinematic Orchestra, live New York City. 6-28-01 Central Park Summerstage 6-29-01 The Knitting Factory These shows will be incredible. I may make a point of being home by the end of June just for this...
domingo, abril 01, 2001
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linkydink  I may be falling in love with Minnie Riperton. She was an incredible singer/songwriter who made some amazing music in the 70s and late 60s, first with a group called Rotary Connection and later under her own name. She died of breast cancer in 1979. I found a copy of her 1975 album Adventures In Paradise a few weeks ago and bought it because I knew some very cool hiphop groups had sampled tracks from it. (Tribe Called Quest in Lyrics To Go and Check The Rhyme and Arrested Development in Give A Man A Fish), but I was completely blown away by how good it was. She had what may be the most beautiful voice I've ever heard, with a like 6-octave range or something. I've been listening to it obsessively ever since. Yum.I also love the album cover. Look at her. She's like, "Please lord don't let this lion eat my face off." I think it's a real lion.
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linkydink "Then came week 10, a period that will be remembered as the days in which Mr. Bush discovered the complications of being president." Interesting op-ed from The New York Times.
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linkydink I've been going through the Blog archives, and it's really bringing back memories. It's only just now occurred to me that, thanks in large part to this weblog, this may be the most well-documented time in my life ever. :-)
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linkydink Photos from my friend Matt Earp's senior thesis dramatization of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest are on the web here, grace a the miraculous Richy Rich (who also did the lights). Wish I had been there for it! My favs are Escaton Group, Madame Psychosis, Mario And Axford, Urine, and Escaton Balls. That shit be fly, yo! Also on the same page are some really dope photos from Ben Spatz's similarly awesome thesis performance. That shit be fly, yo!, too.
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